Saturday, April 17, 2010

Formerly A Slave Comments

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The sufferance of her race is shown,
And retrospect of life,
Which now too late deliverance dawns upon;
Yet is she not at strife.
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Herman Melville
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JBPravda 04 September 2022

Out of his tragic undervaluing by the unwashed he washes over them a magnanimous giant.

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Chinedu Dike 25 December 2021

A profound picture poem, well conceived and wonderfully brought forth with conviction.....

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Susan Williams 31 October 2015

There is a stately grace and beauty to this poem and this woman that is so moving

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